Month: February 2009

This is the third post in a five part series considering what the Bible teaches about itself. The previous posts in this series are 1. How Not to Read the Bible, 2. How to Read the Bible, part 1. The final two posts in this series are 4. How the Bible Reads Us and 5. Reading the Bible, a… Read more

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Phill Marsh at Firwood Church on the morning of the 22 February 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here.… Read more

Ba da ba da de… What, you may ask, is that melodious but slightly disquieting noise? That, my friend, is the sound of me humming a refrain from Matt Redman’s latest (but no longer new) studio album, Beautiful News. You see, Beautiful News is best described by the musical (and technical) term ‘poptastic’. This is… Read more

The Songs of Ascent are a collection of Psalms (running from Psalm 120 through to Psalm 135) which pilgrims sang as they travelled towards Jerusalem and up to the temple. In Psalm 123, the Psalmist laments with the people of God as they experience the scorn and contempt of those around them and calls on the… Read more

I recently heard Dr John Piper posed with the question, ‘Would Jesus have used the internet?’, reply, ‘Probably, but sparingly and very carefully’ (to watch, click here). For the Christian, it is true that the internet can be a dangerous place full of temptation and opportunities to sin. To illustrate this, as I upload this… Read more

‘I like BIG BOOKS and I cannot lie…‘ If these really were the lyrics to that song (and they’re not) and Sir Mix-a-Lot was a Christian (and I have good reason to believe that he isn’t) then that song could well have been written about this book. You see, Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology is indeed… Read more

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Andy Evans at Firwood Church on the morning of the 8 February 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here. SONGS OF… Read more

At the moment the world is in the grip of a terrible recession. We talk constantly about the credit crunch and the recession, which is the worst this country or the world has known for hundreds of years. There is talk of poverty and mass unemployment returning to our country on a scale unprecedented since… Read more